Born in Songdalen, Vest-Agder, in 1959 Ragnhild Furholt grew up with folk musicians in her family in a home filled with folk music. Her father Halvdan and uncle Otto are Hardanger fiddlers. She studied with many older traditional singers in East and West Agde, and performs all genres of Norwegian vocal folk music. She focuses mainly on traditional performance, but has also worked together with musicians such as Leiv Solberg, Ånon Egeland, and her father and sister, Halvdan and Eldbjørg Furholt, for many years.
In addition to being an active traditional singer, she has taught at the Institute of Folk Culture at Telemark College since 1989.
In 1999 she was awarded a Government Grant for Folk Musicians. Ragnhild Furholt is qualified to compete in the most difficult category, A, at the National Contest for Traditional Music, and has won the competition four times. In 2001 she received the King’s Trophy for her achievements. In 2006 she submitted her master’s thesis for cultural studies, on the subject of mediaeval ballads, to the Norwegian Academy of Music.

Discography

1981: Agderkrullar (together with Halvdan and Otto Furholt)
1997: Segner Syng (Grappa)
2001: På alle strengjer
2007: Lån meg vengjene